Okay, here we go with another title. Depending on your tolerance… this could be considered a major spoiler. Now, something else is revealed here. My five-year-old son is studying patterns right now at school. I think he would pick up on this one pretty quickly. First, a quick review:
6.01 – 6.02 – LA X (Everybody Centric)
6.03 – What Kate Does (Kate Centric)
6.04 – The Substitute (Locke Centric)
I call your attention to the episode order of season one:
1.01 – 1.02 – Pilot (Everybody Centric)
1.03 – Tabula Rasa (Kate Centric)
1.04 – Walkabout (Locke Centric)
Could “The Substitute” have something to do with the faux Helen that Locke was paying to be his phone friend? Or something completely new and exciting?
Let’s not overlook the fact that the man in black’s “Locke” facade was a ’substitute’ for the man himself. Could there be a meaning in that connection?
Discuss!
For more, including Doc Jensen’s take on the title, check out Ausiello’s post at EW!
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Awesome!!!!!!!
“The Substitute” probably has something to do with the fact that the Locke we know has now been substituted for some sort of anti-Jacob demon.
Good catch on the mirroring of season 1.0 centricities.
Could the link between 6.03 What Kate Does and 1.03 What Kate Did have any correlation as far as what happens after we assume the bomb goes off? If we assume that ep 1 of season 6 opens at LAX and all of the Losties get off the plane like the were supposed to and retain all those memories of the island isnt it possible that maybe Kate does something she might not have normally done because of those memories? Maybe in this way they will be able to alter the larger timeline and not just what happened at the Incident….you know, free will and all.
This makes me pay more attention to the fact that they have been constantly saying that season 6 will have season 1 feeling to it.
Happy anniversary everybody!
Yes, happy anniversary!
It’s also my gran’s birthday and sadly it’s the (first) obit of Thomas Dörflein, the famous keeper of the even more famed and well known polar bear “Knut”. Here in Berlin that’s almost a day of state mourning.
Im very happy with this similar order.. i think the substitute is refering to the christian locke plane parallells and how locke was the proxy etc etc.. gonna have to stop reading spoilers now tho getting too serious..
At least you’re not whining about not getting the scoop… see DarkUFO all bad mouthing Ausiello. That guy is getting to be so arrogant
So boring. He claims Ausiello steals from him, as well. You all saw darkufo on the red carpet at the emmy’s right? he’s such a phoney.
definitely interesting seeing the patter in the episodes..and YES happy anniversary!
Can’t wait to see 6.07!!!
1.07 was a Charlie Centric
Maybe they replace him with Miles/Richard/Ilana or someone else?
I hope for another Jacob centric episode, or one for Samuel/Mr.X
…or wait…
They even could convert “The Moth” into “The Smoke”. THAT would be intereting!
What do “The Constant”(1), “The Variable”(2) and “The Substitute”(3) mean?
(1) a vehicle to skip forwards or backwards on the same timeline?
(2) a vehicle to switch timelines à la “hop on & hop off”?
(3) a vehicle to alter timelines, merge or literally substitute them?
What do you guys think? Is that an obious hint to an alternate LOSTiverse?
The island moves in space (shown).
The island moves in time (implied).
Maybe the island moves between different realities?
In one reality, Kate kills her father.
In another, the wrong man is killed.
In one, 815 crashes on the Island.
In another, it lands safely in LA X.
In one, John Locke is killed by Ben Linus, and becomes a vessel for the Man in Black.
In another, he doesn’t die, perhaps becoming “the one who will save us all.”
Could explain the whispers – voices from another reality.
In conjunction with the possible Charlie centric episode at 6.07, would a pattern like this also preclude the chance to see another stellar Desmond centric episode?
Think about it, a quick list of Desmond-centric episodes:
Live Together Die Alone,
Flashes before your eyes,
Catch 22,
The Constant, and
Jughead…
The guy is batting 1000!! Personally, I’d like to see him go 6-for-6 before the show is out.
For some reason Eloise Hawking asked Jack in ‘316′ to recreate 815 as close as possible, including John Lockes dead body. Locke was supposed to substitute Christian Shepard as a ‘proxy’. To drive the point home, Jack even had to add his dead fathers shoes. All we know is that Locke stayed up dead in the version of 2007 in which the Ajira flight touched down. If the ‘flashsideways’ in season 6 will go back and forth between Timeline B 2004 and Timeline A 2007, it is possible that we see the dead Locke as the substitute sleeve for Jacob…
so glad we are finally starting to get episode titles. I told myself i would go spoiler free this season, but i just cant see that happining. Hard to believe new lost in almost exactly 4 months away. Its going to be here before we know it.
A Substitute Reality?
“What Kate Does” is most intriguing to me.
We’ve already seen “What Kate Did” in the original time line. Maybe 6.03 will show us “What Kate Does” in the new time line.
Or MAYBE each character will have a chance to change their own past as Desmond did in “Flashes Before Your Eyes”.
Maybe Kate will go back to right before she killed her father and she’ll make a different choice.
And maybe Locke will… become a substitute teacher…?
Honestly I think they are going to wake up before they even took off and they have the choice whether to get on the plane or not.
Just another parallel..In Christianity, Jesus is sometimes called a substitute. He sacrificially substituted himself to pay for the sins of mankind.
I can’t wait.
Locke will go to time which he has not given his kidey to Anthony.
Jack has not started the operation which accopanied by drunk Christian.
Jin and Sun have not married yet.
And they will make their choices.
Perhaps they’ll each go back to when Jacob touched them. Jin and Sun to their wedding day (Jin never takes the job with her father), “What Kate Does” is not steal the lunchbox. And, of course, when Locke is pushed from the window, he dies and is “substituted” at that point in time by none other than Jacob.